Music:
Member Since: 8/22/2006
Band Website: Im not all that technological...
Band Members: I'm off bands for life. Too many egos. NEVER start a band with your boyfriend. It's doomed to failure.
Influences: Oooh- I like a lot of music, and I listen to it too much because my parents always go on about the volume of it, but not all of that really influences me directly... I suppose some of the major ones would be Bjork, Lupen Crook, Radiohead and Elliott Smith, but I like otns of little bands we go see at gigs. It's just that for some reason these are the ones which show up in my songs.
Oh well, I'll list what I like.
Arcade Fire, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Bravery, The Cure, Noisettes, I Was A Cub Scout, :(, Lions Of SWE, Sons And Daughters, Blondie, The Fineline, Wild Beasts, DND, Sky Larkin, Piskie Sits, Chris McMann, The Dawn Chorus, Brian Eno and David Bryne (together or seperately, although I still think Eno should have kept out of Bowie's albums for the most part), Bjork, Lupen Crook, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Killers, Pink Floyd, Libertines, early Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, HEARTSREVOLUTION, Patti Smith, Regina Spektor, Skunk Anansie, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tom Waits, DJ Shadow, Lou Reed, This Et Al, Napoleon IIIrd, Duels, Miles Davis, We Start Fires, Joanna Newsom, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Long Blondes, Pulp, Thom Yorke, The Smiths, Forward Russia, Buen Chico, Faithless (but only a few songs, honestly) Duels,The Research, The Cribs, MIA, Go! Team, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, The White Stripes, D-Koy, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Suzanne Vega, early U2, Jon Gomm, Wolf Parade, Roco De Luca and the Burden, Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros, Fell City Girl, Explosions in the Sky, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, Pixies, Nirvana, Devo, Vib Gyor, Editors, CSS, My Bloody Valentine, Marianne Faithful, Husker Du, Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, The The, Howler Monkey, Sugarcubes, PIL, Solus Locus, Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames (GET A SHORTER NAME, PLEASE!!!) Tangerine Dream, Led Zeppelin, LAMB, Be Your Own Pet!, Massive Attack, Portishead, The Ripps, International Trust, These Monsters, Nick Drake, New Order, Joy Division, Talking Heads and more. Oh yeah and Crystal Castles, I love them and I want to kidnap them both and keep them in my cubbyhole so they can play songs for me!
Films...well. The Virgin Suicides, Frida, Ghostworld, The Piano, Capote, Schindler's List, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the modern one - the whole set is just amazing), The Pianist, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (these two are the most amazing 80's films, probably the only good thing about the decade apart from the Smiths), In Cold Blood, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, As Good as it Gets, Cry Wolf, Chocolat, Control.
One's I hate. Breakfast At Tiffany's. Sorry. But I hate that Holly woman, I would have killed her, truly.
The girl I most love would have to be Nicole Cunningham, she is very crazy and very funny and we have known each other for a lifetime. Thank you, my tour manager (yeah, she claimed that job too).
I have other friends. KT is so cool she got her nipple pierced. Ouch. And my other friend Zoe is a serious gangsta. I'm actually terrified of her, she blackmails me every day for large sums of money. I also have to love my male friends. Hi Josh. And Tom Bland, you're a legend and the second name is the greatest. And Mark who is now back from Australia. And there are a lot of other people too but guess what I'm tired, I just went to aerobics and I can't be bothered. I could do a hate list but it would be too long and I think that might be internet harrassment or something.
My favourite books are Cancer Ward by Alexandr Sol....something, he's a Russian and it's hard to spell. I feel stupid. Also The Last Confession Of Mabel Stark, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Catcher in the Rye, The Binding Chair, To Kill A Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, The Black Dahlia, The Wasp Factory, Complicity(I am a big Ian Banks fan), The Blood Detective (this book is sick in a good way)...all these books are good ... and the entire works of Franz Kafka. He was cool too.
Sounds Like: I'm not sure really.... my influences, I suppose. Acoustic guitar and vocals.
Quote from www.leedsmusicpromotions.com- thank you Paul, this made me very happy today, and made my mum and dad positively ecstatic! -
'Frankie Roe..Starting to make people sit up and take notice of her talents, Frankie is already producing quality lyrics and arrangements, which will surely be enjoyed from much further than her Leeds base.'
Thanks also to Jamie Jeffreys of No Title, who gave me a mention in the review of Acoustoc2 last year-
'More treats for the early birds next, with the self-styled classic song-smithery of 15 year old Frankie. Original material draws on an impressive range of influences, including everything from The Smiths to the James Bond theme tune, while cleverly constructed covers show a real creatvie flair, the highlight for me being a perfectly executed rendition of Nick Drake's 'Cello Song'. With talent like this Frankie easily belies her age, and is definitely one to keep an eye out for.'
Record Label: None, unless I make my own.
Type of Label: None
